Daddy, filmed in cooperation with movie director Peter Whitehead, discovers the connection between a father and little girl. Like the majority of Niki De Saint Phalle’s films, the flick combines autobiography with imagination, mixing erotic scenes of incest with a reverse of energy as the female character humors the daddy figure. Saint Phalle narrates the film, offering an almost psycho-analytical explanation of its content and explains the different inexplicable.
Direction
Saint Phalle and Whitehead's collaborative collision of confession and construction.
Writing
Narration that weaponizes psychoanalysis against patriarchal structures.
Production
Blurred lines between documentary, performance art, and personal exorcism.
Director
Peter Whitehead
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Niki de Saint Phalle was primarily known as a sculptor; her films were extensions of her 'Nanas' and shooting paintings, treating cinema as another canvas for bodily autonomy.
The 'reverse of energy' mentioned in descriptions reflects Saint Phalle's broader feminist project: making the passive active, the looked-at the looker, the daughter the agent.
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